Microsoft’s Hardware-Accelerated BitLocker Doubles NVMe Performance
Microsoft released hardware-accelerated BitLocker encryption in Windows 11's September 2025 update, offloading encryption operations from the CPU to dedicated silicon and eliminating the performance...
Microsoft Engineer Backtracks: Windows NOT Being Rewritten in Rust
Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt issued a significant clarification to his viral LinkedIn post about eliminating C and C++ code from Microsoft by 2030,...
Intel Publishes NPU Firmware for Panther Lake CPUs
Intel has published new firmware for the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) designed for its upcoming Panther Lake processors. The release to the mainline linux-firmware.git...
5 Essential Windows 11 Performance Tweaks Worth Making in 2025
Windows 11's default configuration prioritizes visual polish and cloud integration over raw performance, consuming an average of 3.5GB of RAM immediately after startup on...
NVIDIA’s GPU-Sirius Turbocharges DuckDB Analytics
NVIDIA, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is supercharging DuckDB, the popular in-process analytical database, with GPU acceleration via their open-source Sirius engine....
Linux 6.19 Boosts Laptop & Handheld Gaming Device Support
The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel drops the pretense that gaming hardware is someone else's problem. Major x86 platform driver improvements target gaming laptops and...
Borderlands 4 Performance Boost Arrives on PC with New Update
The saga of Borderlands 4 on PC has been a bumpy ride, to say the least. Plagued by performance issues at launch, many gamers...
Fix iPhone, Android Signal: Boost Reception on the Go
Before blaming your carrier, consider this: your phone might be stuck on a distant cell tower while a stronger one sits 100 feet away....
NVIDIA’s GeForce 591.44 Driver Boosts DLSS 4 for Key Titles
Gamers, rejoice! NVIDIA's latest GeForce 591.44 driver is here, and it's bringing the heat with enhanced DLSS 4 support for two of the year's...
WebGPU Goes Universal: The Browser Just Got God-Mode
WebGPU is now officially supported across Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari. This means high-performance 3D graphics and AI capabilities are now available right in...